Extinct vs Defunct - What's the difference?
extinct | defunct |
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
Deceased, dead.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
No longer in use, inactive.
(computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
(business) No longer in business or service.
The dead person (referred to).
* 1817 September , in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine , volume 1, page 617:
As adjectives the difference between extinct and defunct
is that extinct is extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc. while defunct is deceased, dead.As a verb defunct is
to make defunct.As a noun defunct is
the dead person (referred to).extinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .
Synonyms
* deadAntonyms
* (no longer alight) burning * (having died out) extant * active, dormantExternal links
* *defunct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- defunct organs
- The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.